BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 33 - Holst’s The Planets (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Strauss, Holst and Matthew Kaner's new choral work with baritone Roderick Williams.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

01. Richard Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
01a. Introduction to Prom 33
02. Matthew Kaner - Pearl [BBC commission: world premiere]
02a. Interview with Matthew Kaner
02b. Interval, Prom 33
In the interval Georgia Mann is joined by the poet Philip Gross, to hear about how poets and writers have used the imagery of the planets from the 17th century to the present day, including readings of Philip’s own works Sky Space, and Moon O.
03. Holst - The Planets

Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the years around the First World War, Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst both pushed at the outer limits of what an orchestra could do – with results that still startle the ears. But there’s more to Death and Transfiguration than soaring heroics, and Holst’s The Planets begins with great tunes and glittering colours before wandering into other-worldly, distant regions. Ryan Wigglesworth brings a composer’s ear to two works that make a perfect frame for Matthew Kaner’s haunting new commission Pearl – in which an ancient lament (a medieval poem translated by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage) unlocks human emotions that cross centuries – and maybe travel even further than that. It’s specially tailored to the glowing voice and peerless communicative skill of British baritone Roderick Williams with the BBC Symphony Chorus.

First broadcast: 10 August 2022      
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